Prostate cancer, the most common type of cancer in males over the age of 50, has many treatment options available through the field of urology. If you or your spouse has this condition, you should learn all you can about the effectiveness, risks, and potential side effects of the various treatments offered to you.
Watchful Waiting
Because many prostate cancers grow quite slowly, some doctors will recommend that their patients wait to pursue treatment. This is known as watchful waiting. While they are waiting, patients will be carefully monitored by the urology department at their clinic or hospital. This allows the doctor to take action if the cancer begins to grow.
Radiation
Radiation destroys prostate cancer from the inside out. To treat prostate cancer, your urologist will place tiny radioactive particles, or seeds, inside the prostate gland. As these seeds send radiation into the tissue, it then destroys the gland and its cancer. Eventually the seeds lose their radioactive nature, and they remain inside the body for the remainder of the patients life. Continue reading ‘Urology – Treatments For Prostate Cancer’ »